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All Hail West Texas

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All Hail West Texas

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    Track     Duration Listeners
1 Play The Best Ever Death Metal Band in Denton 2:36 43,682
2 Play Fall of the Star High School Running Back 1:49 32,245
3 Play Color in Your Cheeks 2:40 36,730
4 Play Jenny 2:51 38,834
5 Play Fault Lines 2:38 30,254
6 Play Balance 2:02 29,863
7 Play Pink and Blue 2:29 29,819
8 Play Riches and Wonders 3:57 22,337
9 Play The Mess Inside 3:35 28,639
10 Play Jeff Davis County Blues 3:14 23,907
11 Play Distant Stations 3:04 23,623
12 Play Blues in Dallas 4:15 22,800
13 Play Source Decay 3:47 21,382
14 Play Absolute Lithops Effect 3:08 22,100

About this album

© Emperor Jones (2002) Released: 19 Feb 2002 14 tracks (42:05)
All Hail West Texas is an album by The Mountain Goats. After the slight increase in production values on 2000’s The Coroner’s Gambit, All Hail West Texas is the last Mountain Goats album on which all the songs were recorded on John Darnielle’s trademark Panasonic RX-FT500 boombox.

The album is loosely a concept album, with the cover stating that the album consists of “fourteen songs about seven people, two houses, a motorcycle, and a locked treatment facility for adolescent boys”. Many of the songs explicitly reference places in Texas, and evoke a lifestyle ethos born of the vast expanses of desert and highway found in West Texas itself.

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